No owner has changed the landscape of sports more than New York Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner. Award-winning sportswriter Madden traces Steinbrenner from his early days in Cleveland through his years as a shipping magnate, a Nixon fund-raiser, and a champion horse breeder to the fateful moment when he bought the Yankees--and onward through the next four decades.
If you love the New York Yankees, arguably the most storied franchise in all of sports--or even if you're just a fan of baseball history, or big business bios--this biography of the larger-than-life team owner for the past four decades is a must for your bookshelf. For more than 30 years Bill Madden has covered the Yankees and Major League Baseball for the New York Daily News, and he brings all his insights and inside connections to Steinbrenner: the definitive biography of one of New York's most intriguing and long-standing sports figures, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.